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On Black Strings & Branes In Lovelock Gravity, David Kastor, Robert Mann
On Black Strings & Branes In Lovelock Gravity, David Kastor, Robert Mann
Physics Department Faculty Publication Series
It is well known that black strings and branes may be constructed in pure Einstein gravity simply by adding flat directions to a vacuum black hole solution. A similar construction holds in the presence of a cosmological constant. While these constructions fail in general Lovelock theories, we show that they carry over straightforwardly within a class of Lovelock gravity theories that have (locally) unique constant curvature vacua.